Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Bloch, Arthur

In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving --instead of actually getting up and leaving.

Jong, Erica

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

Waugh, Evelyn

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Mansfield, Katherine

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil -- but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often -- just to save it from drying out completely

Brown, Pam

A friend once wrote: Give me your faith, not your doubts.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

Byrnes, James F.

The book is closed, the year is done, The pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, Along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, A deep content, another friend.

Ward, Arch

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The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Buddha

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Homer

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

Rickenbacker, Edward Vernon

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Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.

Rogers, Will

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In a friend you find a second self.

Norton, Isabelle

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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Aretino, Pietro

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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In comradeship is danger countered best.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You may poke a man's fire after you've known him for seven years.

Proverb, English

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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Jerome, St.

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Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

Swift, Jonathan

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive like a wildflower when these favour, and when they do not, it is in vain to look for it.

Wordsworth, William

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One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

Brodsky, Joseph

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He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front.

Levinson, Leonard Louis

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Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

Blake, William

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

Powell, John Enoch

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Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Hale, Matthew

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Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.

Proverb

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Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

Capote, Truman

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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

Proverb

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Since it has been my lot to find, at every parting of the road, the helping hand of comrade kind to help me with my heavy load, And since I have no gold to give and love alone must make amends, my humble prayer is, while I live -- God, make me worthy of my friends.

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Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -

Budgell, Eustace

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The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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Friendship is essentially a partnership.

Aristotle

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Pythagoras

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As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Eastman, Charles Alexander

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The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Addison, Joseph

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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

O'Malley, Austin